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Born | Tucker McNear Carlson[1] May 16, 1969 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Education | Trinity College (BA) |
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Political party | Republican[2] |
Movement | Paleoconservatism[3] |
Spouse(s) | Susan Andrews (m. 1991) |
Children | 4 |
Relatives | Dick Carlson (father) |
Website | Official website |
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Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson[4] (born May 16, 1969)[5] is an American conservative television host and political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.
Carlson became a print journalist in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005, and co-host of the network's prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. He would later host the nightly program Tucker on MSNBC from 2005 to 2008. He has been a political analyst for Fox News since 2009, appearing as guest or guest host on various programs before the launch of his current show. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the conservative news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.[6] He has written two books: a memoir titled Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites (2003) and a political book titled Ship of Fools (2018).
An advocate of U.S. president Donald Trump, Carlson has been described by Politico as "perhaps the highest-profile proponent of 'Trumpism' and willing to criticize Trump if he strayed from it."[7] He is also said to have influenced some key policy decisions by Trump.[8][9] As of 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight is the most-watched cable news show in the United States.[10] Carlson's controversial statements on race, immigration and women have led to advertiser boycotts against the show.[11][12]
A vocal opponent of progressivism, Carlson has been called a nationalist and a paleoconservative.[13][14] Originally a proponent of libertarian economic policy and a supporter of Ron Paul, Carlson would come to criticize the ideology as being "controlled by the banks" and became an active adherer to protectionism.[4][15] He espouses anti-interventionalist views, and has renounced his initial support of the Iraq War.[4][16]
Early life and education
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Carlson was born in San Francisco, California. His great-great grandfather Cesar Lombardi immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1860.[17] From Lombardi, Carlson descends from Swiss-Italian ancestry.[18] He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former "gonzo reporter"[19] who became the director of the Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles.[20] Carlson's paternal grandparents were Richard Boynton and Dorothy Anderson, teenagers who placed his father in an orphanage where he was adopted when he was two years old by the Carlsons. Richard Carlson's adoptive father was a wool broker.[21][19][22]
Carlson's mother was artist Lisa McNear (née Lombardi). He also has a brother, Buckley Peck Carlson (later, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson), who is nearly two years younger.[23]
In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour."[23][24] Carlson's father was granted custody of Tucker and his brother. Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle.[20][25][26]
Dick Carlson was said to be an active father who had a specific outlook in raising his sons:
I want them to be self-disciplined to the degree that I think is necessary to find satisfaction ... you measure a person on how far they go, on how far they've sprung. My parents, the Carlsons, they instilled a modesty in me that, at times, gets in my way ... I know it's immodest of me to say it, but it's difficult sometimes when you want to beat your own drum and say what you really think.
In 1979, Carlson's father married divorcée Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises. Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.[20][27]
When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to La Jolla, California, and raised them there.[28][29] In La Jolla, Carlson attended La Jolla Country Day School and grew up in a home overlooking the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.[30] His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Maine and Nova Scotia.[30][19]
Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but says he was "kicked out".[31] He attained his secondary education at St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. There, Carlson started dating his future wife, Susan Andrews, who was also the headmaster's daughter.[32] He then went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1991 with a BA in history.[20] After college, Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father.[20][33]
Television career
Carlson began his journalism career as a fact-checker for Policy Review,[20] a national conservative journal then published by The Heritage Foundation and since acquired by the Hoover Institution. He later worked as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, before joining The Weekly Standard news magazine in 1995.[20] Carlson actively sought a role with the publication after hearing of its founding, fearing he would be "written off as a wing nut" if he instead joined The American Spectator.[32]
In 1999, Carlson interviewed then-Governor George W. Bush for Talk magazine. He quoted Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker (who was executed in Bush's state of Texas) and frequently using the word "fuck".[34][35] The piece led to bad publicity for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Bush claimed that "Mr. Carlson misread, mischaracterized me. He's a good reporter, he just misunderstood about how serious that was. I take the death penalty very seriously."[32][36] Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". Carlson said of the interview, "I thought I'd be ragged for writing a puffy piece. My wife said people are going to think you're hunting for a job in the Bush campaign."[32]
Further into his career in print, Carlson worked as a columnist for New York and Reader's Digest; writing for Esquire, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal.[20][32] John F. Harris of Politico would later remark on how Carlson was "viewed ... as an important voice of the intelligentsia" during this period.[37]
In his early television career Carlson wore bow ties, a habit from boarding school he continued on air until 2006.[26][38]
CNN (2000–2005)
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In 2000, Carlson co-hosted the short-lived show The Spin Room on CNN.[20] In 2001, he was appointed co-host of Crossfire, in which Carlson and Robert Novak represented the political right (alternating on different nights), while James Carville and Paul Begala, also alternating as hosts, represented the left.[20] During the same period, he also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered.
Jon Stewart debate
In October 2004, comedian and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire, ostensibly to promote America (The Book), but he instead launched into a critique of Crossfire, saying that the show was harmful to political discourse in the U.S.[20][39] Carlson was singled out by Stewart for criticism, with Carlson in turn criticizing Stewart for being biased toward the left.[20] Carlson later recalled that Stewart had stayed at CNN for hours after the show to discuss the issues he had raised on the air, saying, "It was heartfelt. [Stewart] needed to do this."[40] In 2017, The New York Times referred to Stewart's "on-air dressing-down" of Carlson as an "ignominious career [moment]" for Carlson, leading to the show's cancellation.[41]
On January 5, 2005, CNN chief Jonathan Klein told Carlson that the network had decided not to renew his contract.[42] CNN announced that it was ending its relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire.[43][44] Carlson later stated:
I resigned from Crossfire in April [2004], many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation…each side coming out, you know, "Here's my argument", and no one listening to anyone else. [CNN] was a frustrating place to work.[45]
MSNBC (2005–2008)
Carlson's early evening show, Tucker (originally titled The Situation With Tucker Carlson), premiered on June 13, 2005 on MSNBC. He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics, during which he attempted to learn how to play various Olympic sports. In July 2006, he reported live for Tucker from Haifa, Israel, during the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. While in the Middle East, he also hosted MSNBC Special Report: Mideast Crisis. He appeared regularly on Verdict with Dan Abrams as a panelist in political discussions.
Tucker was canceled by the network on March 10, 2008 due to low ratings,[46] and the final episode aired on March 14, 2008. Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, wrote that "during Mr. Carlson's tenure, MSNBC's evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., were then occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow." Carlson said the network had changed a lot and "they didn't have a role for me."[47]
Television outside journalism (2006–07)
Carlson was a contestant on season 3 of the reality show Dancing with the Stars, which aired in 2006; he was paired with professional dancer Elena Grinenko. Carlson took four-hour-a-day ballroom dance classes in preparation for the competition. In an interview a month before the show began, he lamented that he would miss classes during a two-week-long MSNBC assignment in Lebanon, noting that "It's hard for me to remember the moves."[48] Carlson said he accepted ABC's invitation to perform because "I don't do things that I'm not good at very often. I'm psyched to get to do that."[48] Carlson was the first contestant eliminated, on September 13, 2006.[20]
Carlson had a cameo appearance in the Season 1 episode "Hard Ball" of 30 Rock and in a Season 9 episode of The King of Queens, both playing himself.[49][50]
Fox News Channel (2009–present)
In May 2009, Fox News announced that Carlson was being hired as a Fox News contributor. He was a frequent guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, made frequent appearances on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, was a substitute host of Hannity in Sean Hannity's absence, and produced a Fox News special entitled Fighting for Our Children's Minds.
In April 2013, Carlson replaced Dave Briggs as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, joining Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris on Saturday and Sunday mornings.[51]
Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016–present)
On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. The premiere episode of the show, which replaced On the Record,[52] was the network's most watched telecast of the year in the time slot with 3.7 million viewers.[53]
Tucker Carlson Tonight aired at 7 p.m. ET each weeknight until January 9, 2017 when Carlson's show replaced Megyn Kelly at the 9 p.m. ET time slot after she left Fox News. In January 2017, Forbes reported that the show had "scored consistently high ratings, averaging 2.8 million viewers per night and ranking as the number two cable news program behind The O'Reilly Factor in December."[54] In March 2017, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the most watched cable program in the 9 p.m. time slot.[55]
On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that Tucker Carlson Tonight would air at 8 p.m. following the cancellation of The O'Reilly Factor.[56] Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third-highest-rated cable news show as of March 2018.[57]
In October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second-highest rated cable news show in prime time, after The Sean Hannity Show with Sean Hannity, with 3.2 million nightly viewers.[58] By the end of 2018, the show had begun to be boycotted by at least 20 advertisers after Carlson said Mexican immigration makes the country "poorer, dirtier and more divided". According to Fox News, the advertisers only moved their ad buys to other programs.[59]
By January 2019, his show dropped to third with 2.8 million nightly viewers, down six percent from the previous year.[60] The show had lost at least 26 advertisers.[61][62] There were calls to fire Carlson from Fox News in March 2019 after Media Matters resurfaced remarks on women he had made over several years to the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge, but his ratings rose 8 percent that week despite the boycotts.[11] By August 2019, Media Matters calculated that some companies had fulfilled their media buy contracts and advertising inventory for the time slot and had now begun their purchases for other time slots on Fox News.[63][64] At the close of 2019, Carlson's Nielsen ratings among all viewers 25–54 placed him second only to Fox's The Sean Hannity Show among cable news shows.[65]
Beginning the week of June 8–14, 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight became the highest-rated cable news show in the U.S., with an average of 4 million viewers, beating out the shows hosted by fellow Fox News pundits Hannity and Ingraham. This came in the wake of Carlson's remarks criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, which had caused some companies to pull their advertising from the show, including The Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile and Papa John's.[66]
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In July 2020, Carlson's head writer, Blake Neff, resigned after CNN Business reported that he had been using a pseudonym to post remarks described as racist, sexist, and homophobic on AutoAdmit, a message board known for its lack of moderation of offensive and defamatory content. The incident drew renewed scrutiny to Carlson's program, already under pressure from sponsors because of Carlson's remarks about Black Lives Matter.[67][68] Neff had also previously been a writer on The Daily Caller.[69] Carlson condemned Neff's posts on the second episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight that aired after the posts were initially reported.[70]
In September 2020, a federal judge, in dismissing a defamation lawsuit regarding statements Carlson made on Tucker Carlson Tonight, cited her acceptance of Fox News' defense that, given that the "general tenor" of the show is to "challenge political correctness and media bias," Carlson is not "stating actual facts" on its show, but instead employs "exaggeration" and "non-literal commentary". The judge also agreed with Fox News' defense that reasonable viewers would have "skepticism" over statements Carlson makes on its show.[71][72][73]
By October 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 5.3 million viewers, with the show's monthly average becoming the highest of any cable news program in history at that point. In the 25–54 demographic, the show maintained an average viewership of just over 1 million, with 670,000 being between the ages of 18–49.[74][75] Carlson's program saw a dip in viewership following the aftermath of the 2020 election, losing out to Anderson Cooper 360° in the 25–54 demographic which Carlson had maintained a hold of the prior month.[76] This coincided with Carlson's distancing himself of President Donald Trump's post-election legal fights, in which Carlson said the election was "not fair" but acknowledged it still wouldn't produce a Trump victory.[77][78] In 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Sean Hannity Show became the first cable news programs to finish a full year with viewership in excess of 4 million.[79]
In the week following the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, Tucker Carlson Tonight remained the only cable news program to not see a drop in viewership, slightly increasing even from where it stood one week prior and reclaiming its lead among the 25–54 demographic.[80][81] In February 2021, Carlson announced a multiyear deal between him and Fox News for him to host a new weekly podcast and series of monthly specials dubbed Tucker Carlson Originals exclusively on sister streaming service Fox Nation with a planned release in April.[82][83]
The Daily Caller (2010–2020)
On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney) launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. Carlson served as editor-in-chief, and occasionally wrote opinion pieces with Patel.[84] The website was funded by the conservative activist Foster Freiss.[20] By February, The Daily Caller was part of the White House rotating press pool.[85]
In an interview with Politico, Carlson said The Daily Caller would not be tied to ideology but rather will be "breaking stories of importance". In a Washington Post article, Carlson added, "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone." Columnist Mickey Kaus quit after Carlson refused to run a column critical of Fox News's coverage of the immigration policy debate due to his contractual obligations to Fox News.[86][87][20]
Carlson was replaced by Vince Coglianese as editor-in-chief in 2016 after he began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News.[88] In June 2020, Carlson sold his one-third stake in The Daily Caller to Patel.[89]
Writing
Carlson authored the memoir Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News (Warner Books, 2003), about his television news experiences.[90]
In February 2012, The Daily Caller published an "investigative series" of articles co-authored by Carlson, purporting to be an insiders' exposé of Media Matters for America (MMfA), the liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets, and its founder David Brock.[91] Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer, while commenting "I've never thought much of Media Matters' style of watchdogging or Brock's journalism," nevertheless sharply criticized The Daily Caller piece for relying on conjecture, absence of evidence, and inclusion of "anonymously sourced crap", adding that "Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda."[92]
In May 2017, Carlson, represented by the literary and creative agency Javelin, signed an eight-figure, two-book deal with Simon & Schuster's conservative imprint, Threshold Editions.[93] His first book in the series, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, was released in October 2018,[94] and debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.[95]
Political views
Carlson has been described in the media as a conservative[96][97] or paleoconservative.[98][99] Writing for New York magazine's Intelligencer, Park MacDougald called Carlson a "Middle American radical," which he described as someone who holds populist economic beliefs; hostility to corporatocracy; fervent positions on nationalism, race, and immigration; and a preference for a strong U.S. president. MacDougald identified this form of radicalism as the ideological core of Trumpism.[100]
Social views
Carlson is pro-life and has voiced opposition to capital punishment, calling it "morally disturbing" and affirming he's "not comfortable with the death penalty under any circumstances".[101][102][103]
Economics
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Early in his career, Carlson espoused a libertarian view of economics. He supported Ron Paul's 1988 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as the candidate for the Libertarian Party, along with his 2008 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as a Republican.[15][104]
In 2009, Carlson became a senior fellow at libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.[105] As of 2017, he is no longer affiliated with the organization.[106]
Since 2018, he has promoted a more populist view of economics,[107] attacking libertarianism, and saying "market capitalism is not a religion."[108]
In an interview, he warned that economic and technological change that occurs too quickly can cause widespread social and political upheaval, and stated his belief that a model to follow is that of President Theodore Roosevelt, whose interventionist role in the economy in the early 1900s may have, in Carlson's view, prevented a communist revolution in the United States.[109]
In 2019, in his monologue on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said America's "ruling class" are, in effect, the "mercenaries" behind the decline of the American middle class:
[A]ny economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.[110]
He also criticized what he called the "private equity model" of capitalism, using the example of Bain Capital to describe a pattern of corporate behavior in such organizations:
Take over an existing company for a short period of time, cut costs by firing employees, run up the debt, extract the wealth and move on, sometimes leaving retirees without their earned pensions ... Meanwhile, a remarkable number of the companies are now bankrupt or extinct.[111]
He attacked payday lenders for "loan[ing] people money they can't possibly repay ... [and] charg[ing] them interest that impoverishes them."[111]
Carlson has also praised Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's economic plan and her book The Two Income Trap as "one of the best books I've ever read on economics."[112][113]
Environment
On his show, Carlson frequently hosts guests who downplay the scientific consensus on climate change,[114] and he has also done that repeatedly himself.[115][116][117][118]
Views on Republicans and Democrats
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Carlson did not vote in the 2004 election, citing his disgust with the Iraq War; his disillusionment with the once small-government Republican Party; and his disappointment with President George W. Bush and like-minded conservatives:[16]
I don't know what you consider conservative, but I'm not much of a 'liberal,' at least as the word is currently defined. For instance, I'm utterly opposed to abortion, which I think is horrible and cruel. I think affirmative action is wrong. I'd like to slow immigration pretty dramatically. I hate all nanny-state regulations, such as seat belt laws and smoking bans. I'm not for big government. I think the U.S. ought to hesitate before intervening abroad. I think these are conservative impulses. So by my criteria, Bush isn't much of a conservative.[16]
In 2003, speaking about John McCain and his failed 2000 presidential bid, Carlson stated:
I liked McCain. And I would have voted for McCain for president happily, not because I agree with his politics; I never took McCain's politics seriously enough even to have strong feelings about them. I don't think McCain has very strong politics. He's interested in ideas almost as little as George W. Bush is. McCain isn't intellectual and doesn't have a strong ideology at all. He's wound up sort of as a liberal Republican because he's mad at other Republicans, not because he's a liberal.[119]
In January 2019, Carlson used a Washington Post op-ed by Mitt Romney to criticize what he described as the "mainstream Republican" worldview, consisting of "unwavering support for a finance-based economy and an internationalist foreign policy," which he argued was also supported by the bulk of Democrats.[111] He cited parallels, in regard to economic and social problems which had befallen inner cities and rural areas, despite cultural and demographic differences between their respective populations, as evidence that the "culture of poverty," which had been cited by conservatives as the cause of urban decline, "wasn't the whole story:"
[Both parties] miss the obvious point: Culture and economics are inseparably intertwined. Certain economic systems allow families to thrive. Thriving families make market economies possible.[111]
Prior to 2020, Carlson was a registered member of the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C.[120] In 2017, Carlson said his registration as a Democrat was to gain the right to vote in the primaries for mayoral elections in the district, "a one-party state", and that he "always votes for the more corrupt candidate over the idealist" in order to favor the status quo and stem progressivism.[121] By 2020, Carlson registered as a Republican in his newly-adopted residency of Florida.[2][122]
Foreign policy
Carlson is skeptical of foreign intervention, and has said "the U.S. ought to hesitate before intervening abroad."[123]
Iraq
Carlson initially supported the Iraq War. However, a year after the invasion of Iraq, he began criticizing the war, telling The New York Observer: "I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it."[124]
Iran
In July 2017, Carlson said that "[w]e actually don't face any domestic threat from Iran." He asked Max Boot to "tell me how many Americans in the United States have been murdered by terrorists backed by Iran since 9/11?"[125] According to The New York Times, Carlson played an influential role in dissuading Trump from launching military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an American drone in June 2019. Carlson reportedly told Trump that if he listened to his hawkish advisors and went ahead with the strikes, he would not win re-election.[8]
Carlson referred to the 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a "quagmire." He criticized the "chest-beaters" who promote foreign interventions, particularly Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), and asked, "By the way, if we're still in Afghanistan, 19 years, sad years, later, what makes us think there's a quick way out of Iran?"[126]
Mexico
Carlson supported the proposed expansion of the Mexico–United States barrier – citing the Israeli West Bank barrier as an example. Carlson argued:[127]
The estimated cost of a border wall is about $25 billion. That is estimated so let's say it is twice that. That is still a tiny fraction of the price of the pointless stalemate we're now waging in Afghanistan. That costs about $45 billion every year, not including the human cost. Compare that to $25 billion needed to restore sovereignty with the wall.
In a July 2018 interview about Russian involvement in U.S. elections, Carlson said Mexico has interfered in U.S. elections "more successfully" than Russia by "packing our electorate" through mass immigration.[128] This assertion was disputed by journalist Philip Bump, who wrote that the number of Mexicans in the U.S. had decreased since 2009 and asked rhetorically: "What good has it done Mexico to have a number of its citizens move to the United States and gain the right to vote?".[129]
In May 2019, Carlson defended Trump's decision to place tariffs on Mexico unless Mexico stopped illegal immigration to the United States. Carlson said, "When the United States is attacked by a hostile foreign power it must strike back, and make no mistake Mexico is a hostile foreign power."[130]
Russia
Carlson has said he does not consider Russia a serious threat to the United States.[125] He has called for the United States to work with Russia in the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War against a common enemy like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).[131][132] Peter Beinart of The Atlantic said Carlson has been an "apologist for Donald Trump on the Russia scandal."[125] Carlson described the controversy in the wake of revelations that Donald Trump Jr. was willing to accept anti-Clinton information from a Russian government official as a "new level of hysteria" and said that Trump Jr. had only been "gossiping with foreigners."[125]
In May 2019, after Robert Mueller gave a statement saying the Special Counsel investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election did not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, Carlson called Mueller "sleazy and dishonest."[133]
At the beginning of December 2019, Carlson stated "the irony, of course, is that Putin, for all his faults, does not hate America as much as many of these people do" meaning liberals. "They really dislike our country. And they call other people traitors because they’re mouthing the talking points of Putin." He was criticized by Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador during the Obama administration, "You are wrong Mr. Carlson. Putin does hate America," urging him to "Stop attacking Americans & defending Putin."[134][135]
Syria
Carlson opposes overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.[125] In April 2018, Carlson questioned whether Assad was responsible for the Douma chemical attack that had occurred a few days earlier and killed dozens.[136][137] In November 2019, Carlson repeated this claim and queried whether the attack had actually happened at all.[138]
Carlson suggested that a similar attack that occurred the year before (the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack), which was attributed to Assad's forces and which the OPCW JIM indicated was carried out with sarin that bore the regime's signature, was a false flag attack perpetrated to falsely implicate the Assad government. Carlson compared Assad's war crimes during the Syrian Civil War to Saudi Arabia's war crimes in Yemen.[136]
North Korea
When President Trump met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the country's border with the South in June 2019, Carlson told Fox & Friends said "there's no defending the North Korean regime, it’s the last real Stalinist regime in the world. It’s a disgusting place obviously", but "you've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people."[139] Carlson went on to argue that although "not on the scale that the North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that [the United States] are closely allied with."[140][141][142][143]
China
Carlson has said normalization of relations with China following President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit led to unforeseen consequences, and that America became progressively worse off for it.[144] He criticized LeBron James for speaking out against Daryl Morey, the latter having tweeted in support of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests,[145][146] and referred to former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger, as a "propagandist" for the Chinese Communist Party.[144]
Immigration and race
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Carlson is a frequent critic of immigration.[147] Carlson has been accused by Erik Wemple of The Washington Post and by writers for Vox of demonizing immigrants, both legal and illegal.[148][149][150][151] Terry Smith, a law professor at St. Thomas University, has characterized Carlson's rhetoric as an example of white identity politics.[152] According to University of Michigan professor Alexandra Stern, Carlson propagates demographic fear.[153]
He has opposed demographic changes in the United States, writing in 2018 about Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where over a 15-year period the percentage of Hispanics shifted from a small minority to a majority. Carlson believed it was "more change than human beings are designed to digest."[151] In 2018, Carlson suggested that mass immigration makes the United States "dirtier", "poorer" and "more divided."[154][155] In response to criticism of this, he has said that "we're not intimidated" and "we plan to try to say what's true until the last day. And the truth is, unregulated mass immigration has badly hurt this country's natural landscape."[156]
Of illegal immigration, Carlson said in May 2019, "The flood of illegal workers into the United States has damaged our communities, ruined our schools, burdened our healthcare system and fractured our national unity."[130] In December 2019, he falsely claimed that immigrants were responsible for making the Potomac River "dirtier and dirtier."[157][158]
Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that "Carlson probably has been the No. 1 commentator mainstreaming bedrock principles of white nationalism in [the U.S.]," and accused him of promoting the white genocide conspiracy theory, the idea that white people are under attack by minorities and immigrants.[159] Critics have accused Carlson's show of promoting racism, a charge which he has denied.[160][161] Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol described the views Carlson expressed on his show with these words, "I don’t know if it’s racism exactly — but ethno-nationalism of some kind, let’s call it."[162] Carlson responded that Kristol had "discredited himself years ago."[163] Carlson has denied being a racist and has said he hates racism.[20]
In call-in segments Carlson made from 2006 to 2008 on the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge, Carlson said Iraq was not worth invading because it was a country made up of "semi-literate primitive monkeys" who "don't use toilet paper or forks." He also criticized "lunatic Muslims who are behaving like animals," and said that any presidential candidate who vowed to "kill as many of them as [they] can" would be "elected king." Recordings of these segments were released online in March 2019 by the progressive Media Matters for America. The Washington Post labeled these comments racist.[164]
When Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, condemned then-candidate Donald Trump after he evaded questions about former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke's support,[165] saying it was a "disqualifying and disgusting response," Carlson criticized Romney and dismissed his speech by suggesting "Obama could have written" it.[166] In a guest appearance with Alex Jones in 2015, he described the Obama administration: "They categorize people by race in a way that, you know, you can't even imagine – 30 years ago you would have said, 'Wait a second, that's like Nazi stuff'".[167]
South Africa (2018)
In August 2018, Carlson ran a segment in which he alleged that the South African government was targeting white farmers during its ongoing land reform efforts due to anti-white racism.[168][169][170] He interviewed Marian Tupy, an analyst at the Cato Institute, who likened South African farmers facing land seizures to white farmers in Zimbabwe who lost their farms in a controversial land reform policy under the President Robert Mugabe.[171] He accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of changing the country's constitution to allegedly enable land theft from whites because "they are the wrong skin color."[172]
CBS News, Associated Press, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal described Carlson's segment on South Africa's corrective reparations as false or misleading. In addition to presenting statistics that violence against farmers had reached an all-time low, they noted that the reforms had yet to pass and were primarily aimed at land that had fallen into disuse.[173][169][170][174][172][175][176]
Following the Carlson segment, President Trump tweeted that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "closely study the South Africa land and farm seizure and large scale killing of farmers."[168][169][170] Trump's tweet was denounced as "'misinformed'" by the South African government, which stated that it would address the matter through diplomatic channels. AfriForum, a South African non-governmental organization focused mainly on the interests of Afrikaners, took credit for Carlson and Trump's statements, saying it believed that its campaign to influence American politics had succeeded.[170]
The evening following the segment, Carlson corrected the statements he had made about the South African land reform, though he did not admit to having made errors. He said the proposed constitutional amendment was still being debated in South Africa and added that no farms had yet been expropriated. Carlson later stated in an interview that he "doesn't believe anyone should be rewarded or punished based upon characteristics they can't control" and added that his South Africa segment made "an argument against tribalism."[172]
Ilhan Omar (2019)
Carlson concluded Tucker Carlson Tonight on July 9, 2019, with a 3-minute monologue about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), calling her ungrateful to the United States, where she had been granted asylum, and calling her "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country." His monologue was described by The Guardian as "racially loaded" and "full of anti-immigrant rhetoric."[177] Congresswoman Omar responded on Twitter, saying that "advertisers should not be underwriting this kind of dangerous, hateful rhetoric."[178] In its July 10 article on the incident, The Daily Beast commented that, mainly because of "right-wing attacks that have then been amplified by members of Congress and the president," Omar has been receiving death threats since she was elected to Congress.[179] According to the article, while Carlson "has devoted numerous segments" of his show to criticizing her, this time Carlson "took his anti-Omar stance even further."[179]
El Paso shooting (2019)
Several days after the 2019 El Paso shooting, which was committed by a man who released an anti-immigrant manifesto complaining of a "Hispanic invasion," Carlson described white supremacy as a "hoax" and "a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power." He asked rhetorically, "the combined membership of every white supremacist group in America — would they be able to fit inside a college football stadium?"[180][181][182] According to The Washington Post, "Carlson's argument is belied by many experts and seemingly contradicted by a recent wave of deadly attacks by men motivated by those views."[183]
Black Lives Matter and George Floyd (2020–2021)
In June 2020, Carlson cast doubts on the intentions of Black Lives Matter protestors in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, stating: "This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will." Although Fox News stated that Carlson was referring to Democratic leaders and not protesters, Carlson's comments on Black Lives Matter were met with rebuke. Advertisers including The Walt Disney Company, Papa John's, Poshmark, and T-Mobile stopped advertising on Carlson's program. In other comments, Carlson argued that the unrest following Floyd's killing stemmed from a desire for ideological domination, rather than genuine opposition to police brutality.[184][185][186][187]
On February 10, 2021, Carlson claimed that "there was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop" and that "the autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose—fentanyl", but this conflicted with the findings of two autopsies that he died from homicide caused by former police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. While Floyd did have drugs in his system when he died, medical professionals determined that it was not the cause of his death.[188][189][190]
COVID-19 pandemic
Carlson has criticized government officials and other media for not taking the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States seriously enough, while blaming China for causing the pandemic.[191][192] On March 9, 2020, Carlson opened his show by saying, "People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem.… But they're wrong. It's definitely not just the flu."[9] Two anonymous sources in the White House told The Washington Post that Carlson's statements had caused President Donald Trump to reconsider his position.[9] Carlson also told Vanity Fair that he spoke to Trump and encouraged him to take the coronavirus outbreak seriously.[193][191]
Carlson criticized the lockdown in the United States brought on by the pandemic and NIAID director Anthony Fauci.[194] He defended the protests against the nationwide lockdown within rural areas of the country, stating "[n]ot everywhere is New York or New Jersey. The threat to rural America from this virus is minuscule, so why are we punishing the people who live outside the cities?"[195]
Claims of fraud in the 2020 election
After Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Carlson raised the issue of fraud in the 2020 election.[196][197][198][199] On Carlson's show, he mentioned the names of purportedly dead individuals who voted in Georgia; investigative reporting subsequently found that some of the individuals who he claimed to be dead were in fact alive.[200]
Later that month, Carlson cast doubt on unfounded conspiratorial claims made by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, who alleged that Venezuela, Cuba and unidentified communist interests had used a secret algorithm to hack into voting machines and commit widespread electoral fraud.[201] Carlson said that "what Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history", but that Powell became "angry and told us to stop contacting her" when he asked for evidence of widespread voter fraud.[201]
Personal life
Carlson is married to Susan Carlson (née Andrews).[20] They met while in high school at St. George's School and were married in 1991 in the high school chapel.[202] They have four children.[29][203] Carlson is an Episcopalian and "loves the liturgy, though [he] abhors the liberals who run the denomination."[26]
Carlson quit drinking alcohol in 2002, "having decided that neither the pleasant nights nor the unpleasant mornings were improving his life."[26] Years earlier, he had quit smoking and replaced cigarettes with nicotine gum, which he buys in bulk from New Zealand and "chews constantly."[26]
Carlson is a Deadhead (a fan of the rock band the Grateful Dead), and said in a 2005 interview that he had attended more than 50 of their concerts.[204] He was good friends with Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof and attended his funeral in 2018.[104][205][206]
In 2018, a group of antifa activists associated with the "Smash Racism D.C." group protested outside Carlson's Washington, D.C., home.[207] Carlson's driveway was vandalized with a spray-painted anarchist symbol.[208]
Published works
- Tucker Carlson (2003). Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-7595-0800-2.
- Tucker Carlson (2018). Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-501-18366-9.
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Further reading
- Kurtz, Howard. "The Opinionated Journalist," The Washington Post, August 17, 1999.
- Lenz, Lyz. "The Mystery of Tucker Carlson," Columbia Journalism Review, September 5, 2018.
- Bump, Philip. "Tucker Carlson is making his play to be the post-Trump MAGA champion," The Washington Post, January 14, 2021.
External links
- Tucker Carlson at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN